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If you're having a problem following a diet that cuts out foodgroups like that, then I suggest not going on it. A diet's going to work a lot better if it's something you can enjoy. If you eat a well balanced diet, and eat the good carbs (i.e. whole grains) instead of the bad ones, then you can still lose plenty of weight. I've lost about 60 pounds over the past year and a half, and I eat loads of carbs everyday (cereal, bread, pasta, etc...). I'm not aware of any inherent health risks with it, but from what I've seen from friends on the diet, and what I've learned from nutrition classes, it's hard to live the rest of your life on the Atkins diet, and once you go back to eating regularly most people put the weight back on. The key is to change the way you eat so that you can live with it for the rest of your life. Weight loss ultimately comes down to the number of calories consumed versus the number burned, so you don't have to cut out an entire foodgroup if you don't want to.
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